Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 461
strange influence that th«y exerted over others. Those stories
she dressed up in all the charms of eloquence, and would half
persuade her hearers that they -were true. She was the greatgrand-daughter
of the first .John, inherited his peculiarities, and
education, extensive reading, and association with the in-
telligent, failed to root out the seeds of fanaticism which in
early life had been so deeply implanted in her mind, that they
had become a part of her very being.
THOMAS HATCH.
Many of the name Hatch came over early. Elder William
of Scituate, who came from Sandwich in England in 1635, with
wife Jane and five children, was a noted man in the early history
of the Colony. Two of the name of Thomas came over, and
settled in Massachusetts, and afterwards removed to the Plymouth
Colony. One of them was made a freeman of Massachusetts
May 14, 1634, the same day that three others were, who
were afterwards among the first settlers of Yarmouth. Thomas
whom Mr. Deane calls an elder brother of William, settled in
Scituate, and died there about the year 1646, leaving a family.
Mr. Savage calls this man the freeman ; but circumstances incline
me to the opinion that it was the other Thomas who was made free
May 14, 1634.
Thomas Hatch, the ancestor of the family in this country,
was one of the nine who proposed, Jan. 7, 1638, O. S., "to take
up their freedome at Yarmouth." On the 5th of March following
his name is entered on the record with those who proposed to
become freemen at the next court, but there is no mark against it
indicating that he then took the required oath. In 1641 he had
removed to Barnstable, and at the court held the first of June
that year, he with others of that town, was again "propounded to
be admitted a freeman at the next court." His name does not appear
on any list of freemen of the town of Barnstable. He had
taken the "oath of fidelity" before his removal from Yarmouth,